VEHICLE WAS PURCHASED AT MARSHALL BROS IN NEW ORLEANS, VEHICLE WAS SOLD AS A CERTIFIED VEHICLE. VEHICLE HAD TO HAVE A NEW TRANSMISSION INSTALLED 2 MONTHS AFTER VEHICLE PURCHASED. VEHICLE WAS SOLD WITH THE PROBLEM KNOWN TO DEALERSHIP. WORKER AT LOCATION STATED THEY KNEW IT AND WHEN WE PURCHASED VEHICLE, THEY INSISTED ON US BUYING AN EXTENDED WARRANTY SINCE IT WAS USED. INSISTED TO THE POINT OF GIVING POLICY AT COST, THIS WAS DUE TO KNOWN PROBLEM, TRANSMISSION CASE AND UNIT WAS SO BADLY DAMAGED THAT IT COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MISSED. PREVIOUS OWNER CONTACTED AND STATED THEY TOLD DEALERSHIP OF PROBLEM. ALSO SINCE VEHICLE WAS OWNED ELECTRICAL SYSTEM HAS GONE HAYWIRE, BATTERY NOT CHARGING PERIODICALLY, ALARM AND LIGHTS OPERATING ON THEIR OWN,LIGHTS STAYING ON, COMING ON AT NIGHT, RADIO STAYING ON DEALERSHIP STATED THEY COULD NOT FIND ANYTHING WRONG WHEN BROUGHT IN FOR ISSUES, THEY KEPT VEHICLE FOR THREE DAYS. HAPPENED SEVERAL MORE TIMES, SAME STATEMENT BY DEALER. I RESEARCHED PROBLEM ON INTERNET AND DISCOVERED TSB'S ON SAME PROBLEMS, BUT NO RECALL. BUT TSBS HAVE EXISTED SINCE 2004, DEALER KNEW WINDSHIELD LEAKS INTO COMPUTER AND MOONROOF CAN LEAK CAUSING SAME PROBLEM, DEALERSHIP DIDN'T FIX ANYTHING, THEN WHEN OUT OF WARRANTY DEALERSHIP STATES KNOWN ISSUE AND FUSE PANEL NEEDS REPLACING AT COST OF $4,000 . THIS SHOULD BE A RECALL AFTER MY RESEARCH AND SINCE THE DEALERSHIPS ARE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN INCLUDING LYING AND SELLING VEHICLES WITH KNOWN PROBLEMS. BBB WAS CONTACTED AND IN PROCESS OF HAVING PRESS INVOLVED. PLEASE LOOK AT ALL COMPLAINTS ON ISSUE AND MAKE A RECALL NECESSARY. THIS IS A DANGEROUS PROBLEM, VEHICLES WRECKING, PUTTING DRIVERS IN DANGEROUS SITUATIONS. *TR
2006
POWER TRAIN:AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION
OUR 2006 LINCOLN NAVIGATOR (WITH 14,500 MILES) THAT WE JUST BOUGHT TODAY WAS PARKED IN OUR SLOPING DRIVEWAY. MY HUSBAND AND I ALONG WITH OUR TWO KIDS - 4 YR OLD SON AND 22 MONTH OLD DAUGHTER JUST GOT INTO THE TRUCK TO GO SOMEWHERE AND I JUST TURNED ON THE CAR, PUT MY FOOT ON THE BRAKE PEDAL AND CHANGED THE GEAR FROM PARK TO REVERSE. AND THE NEXT THING I KNOW, THE TRUCK WAS ROLLING DOWN OUR SLOPING DRIVEWAY AND ROAD IN REVERSE AND I JUST DIDN'T KNOW WHY THAT WAS HAPPENING BECAUSE I HAD MY FOOT ON THE BRAKE. I JUST KEPT PRESSING ON THE BRAKE PEDAL AND NOTHING WAS HAPPENING. SINCE IT WAS DOWNHILL, IT JUST KEPT GOING REALLY FAST AND EVEN PUTTING THE AUTO SHIFT BACK INTO PARK DIDN'T SLOW IT DOWN UNTIL IT SWERVED AND RAMMED IN REVERSE INTO A CITY FENCE WHICH IS WHAT HALTED THE VEHICLE. MY ENTIRE FAMILY IS COMPLETELY SHAKEN BY THIS. WE JUST CALLED THE POLICE, CALLED OUR INSURANCE, ETC. TRUCK HAS BEEN REMOVED BY CUTTING THE FENCE, ETC AND HAS BEEN TOWED. FURTHER INTERNET SEARCH HAS REVEALED (ON EDMUNDS) 2006 LINCOLN NAVIGATOR BRAKE FAILURE. MY ENTIRE FAMILY COULD HAVE BEEN SERIOUSLY INJURED IN THIS INCIDENT. *TR